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The Legend of St. Loy

With Other Poems. By John Abraham Heraud
Heraud, John A. (1799-1887)
  
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SONNET
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THE LEGEND of ST. Loy
  
Introduction.
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CANTO THE FIRST. The Hermitage.
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CANTO THE SECOND. The Well of St. Loy.
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XXI. The Song of Edwy.
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CANTO THE THIRD. The Wood.
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CANTO THE FOURTH. The Vola.
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XXVI. The Hymn.
  
Conclusion.
  
THE Farewell to Cottenham.
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POEMS.
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THE Lament of the Bard.
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On attaining the Age of Twenty-one
  
THE Grave of the Bard
  
SONG, to---
  
STANZAS On the Death of His Most Gracious Majesty KING GEORGE THE THIRD.
  
SONNET TO ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ.

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XXI.

Meanwhile, that Son of Violence,
And Arts forbid to Innocence,
Dread, secret, dark—which but to name
Would shake this universal frame,
Pluck down the star-attended moon,
And cloud the sun, in lofty noon:
The pillared arch of Heaven torn;
And Earth, with all her mountains, borne
From her firm base of Order, spoken,
When first Confusion's rule was broken:—
Arts, whose wild orgies Nature wound,
Leagued with the storms that rage around:
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Meanwhile, triumphant, still, his scorn,
That bandit-Chief had not forborne
Over that victim of his power.
That winter-touch'd, cold-faded flower:
The daughter of distress supreme,
And o'erwrought agony extreme.
Yet, happy she, her wretchedness
Had wrought to such extreme excess,
Her spirit sunk, collapsed and chill;
From too much feeling could not feel!
Nor her ear hear the taunts he made,
As thus the pride of Evil said:—
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